Official from neighboring country slams the EU: "It's not democratic, things slowly get out of control"

“The European Union is not democratic, and by saying that I do not mean that it is inherently bad, but that it is not democratic — people are appointed to the highest and most important positions through non-democratic processes. More and more people are seeing and feeling this, and that is why more and more people are voting the way they vote,” Milanović said at the Westin Hotel in Zagreb.

Milanović said that the EU and Europe, as a continent, have been in regression over the past 100 years, with occasional periods of progress following major wars into which Europe dragged the entire world.

“Europe is going through a cycle of turning inward. Nothing that comes from Berlin or any other European capital should be taken either too seriously or too lightly,” Milanović said at the “Day of Great Plans” conference.

He stressed that Europe has serious energy-related problems that it has been unable to resolve for decades.

“But the moment you say that out loud, you are immediately labeled as being on the far left, the far right, pro-this or pro-that. But that is not the way we can talk and plan; that is not a conversation at all,” Milanović said.

Noting that “time is flying” while things are getting worse, Milanović concluded that things are getting out of control.

“Time is flying, and things are getting worse. Not necessarily in Croatia, but all around us, things are slowly getting out of control. The UN and the international collective security system are being mocked by their biggest financial contributors,” Milanović said.

He stressed that the international order has ceased to exist and that every sanction — a bilateral sanction, imposed by anyone, without UN verification — is illegal.

“On the surface, the figures have improved: GDP per capita, which is often a very misleading indicator of prosperity and can conceal significant inequality. Purchasing power parity is such that the differences are no longer particularly large compared with some countries we once looked at with envy,” Milanović said.

Average salaries, he added, are not low, and can be compared with those in a country that has “left the EU, the United Kingdom.”

“The gap has never been smaller. But what can you actually buy with that money? Here, prices have completely gotten out of control. We can only hope that things will start to calm down,” Milanović said, according to Croatian media reports.